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Mon 04 April 2022

Note Taking and Searching

Posted by fedops in InfoManagement   

I previously wrote about my note taking/information management process here and here. Quite a lot has changed so it's time for a re-revisit.

As noted I found the one-massive-file Wiki approach limiting, especially since it wasn't easily accessible from the command line which is where I spend most of my time. Then the Joplin file sync approach was better, but still far from perfect.

Information wants to be free

In the 1990s I had …

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Mon 28 March 2022

Installing and Using pandoc on Fedora/Centos/Rocky

Posted by fedops in Howto   

Documentation-As-Code is a much better approach than your WYSIWYG editor of old.

The general consensus regarding how to create and maintain documentation has definitely changed over the past few years. People had come to regard WYSIWYG text processors as the gold standard. Effortlessly arrange text and images, see what you are getting in real time, and everything is just a click away. Besides the big commercial packages there is also a sprawling landscape of free …

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